Ethnology, Volume 24

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Page 276But this is the one element of the system comprising the western home about
which people in Vanuatu seem ambivalent. Kitchens almost never are confined
to the residential dwelling. The European kitchen that gave rise to the modern
model ...

Page 277The associated elements of kava drinking and the na gamal unite men
throughout Vanuatu, providing a potentially powerful national symbol. But the
historical conditions of change in Vanuatu do not fully explain the contemporary
definition of ...

Page 278The na gamal and the valet are two parts of the whole that constitutes individual
and cultural domestic space in Vanuatu. The meaning that each building carries
exists in relation to the other and in the contradictions expressed within and ...